Word: repairing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time that someone called attention to the "racket" that has been going on in the University for a number of years:--the Maintenance Department's "repair racket...
...scientific observer, not a physician, but he is occasionally affected with mercy for the Englishman, whom he loves with a love based on understanding. The Britisher who builds his concrete house first and then bores holes in it for pipes and wiring, who decides to repair a highway on the day before a bank holiday receives no 'pooh-poohing' ridicule at his hands, only honest criticism. But his love does not carry him away to an optimism which will deny the possibility of Britain descending to the status of a lesser power, nor does it inspire him with the sort...
...Queen Victoria, was flimsily built and has been slowly sinking down upon itself, was revealed last week by a spokesman for George V. Able goldsmiths have just restored the Crown, declared the royal announcement. Adding new gold "they have reblocked it an inch higher, a necessary repair, for it had sunk so much and become so insecure that His Majesty could not have worn it much longer." George V observed with satisfaction that each of the 3,000-odd stones in his reblocked headgear, diligently polished, now twinkle and gleam anew. (Startled was 17th Century England when Oliver Cromwell, having...
...comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing in the Repair of Democracy, Sex, The Facts of History, and God.) The spirit of fun untainted by prostitution to a cause lives on only in the Vagabond's breast...
...stage, marries Pat Arden. Everything goes well until Pat is unfaithful with a girl Iris hates. Iris does not mind the unfaithfulness but she does mind the girl. Though Pat still loves Iris and she still loves him, their marriage and Iris' life are hurt beyond repair...